This Week in Tech 105

The music industry vs. net radio, computer viruses turn 25, and 40Gbps Internet access...

• Veronica Belmont is going to begin hosting a show at Mahalo.
• Leo is torn between Jaiku and Pownce.
• July 15, 2007 is the day Internet radio is supposed to die. However, the Save Net Radio coalition has won a partial, albeit not very satisfying, reprieve.
• Hype Machine pulls mp3s from blogs across the Internet. It will even create an RSS feed based on your searches.
• Seeqpod will allow you to create/share playlists of music from across the Internet: much of it illegal. They have an iPhone portal as well.
• A sigh of relief for movie rental companies: few people actually copying DVDs.
• Podtropolis is a resource to get videos, illegal or not, preformatted for the iPod.
• Engadget writer Peter Rojas' new startup RCRD LBL is a record label to release free mp3s from artists backed by advertisers.
• There is a new game called Rock Band that looks very promising.
• Sony is suing the company that created the rootkit that was on their CDs.
• After bringing down the price of the 60gb Playstation 3 to $499, it was soon discovered that it would be discontinued for the $600 80gb PS3.
• Microsoft announced a Halo 3 special edition Xbox 360.
• Nintendo announced a fitness game called Wii Fit.
• A 75-year old has the fastest home broadband at 40gbps!
• Google's Eric Schmidt claims that Viacom is a company built on lawsuits.
• WabiSabiLabi is an eBay-style site selling computer exploits.
• Computer viruses have turned twenty-five years old.
• It is also the tenth anniversary of the blog.